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Aug 15 2020
House
“All of this is for the very best end.” Remember, Nellie Forbush is a stone cold racist who ruins the lives of everyone she touches. I think Candide is about my favorite Opera ever. It has all the essential elements, naive ingenue led into misbehavior by ill counsel and a rebellious nature as her life …
Aug 14 2020
Cartnoon
When I think about Bushcrafting I’ve devised a pyramid of need. The first two steps are mostly preliminary to the third, which is vital. You need a knife. Endlessly useful in breaking down material they’re very difficult to construct in a primitive environment (not impossible). Your best bet is to have one, doesn’t have to …
Aug 14 2020
Unreliable Narrators
Unless exposed like an English Major (Historians write too) it might not occur to you that most of what you read is not at all true, demonstrably false by easy experiments in fact (Harris? Really? There are plenty of reasons to hate her, and I do, but she is more a “Natural Born” Citizen of …
Aug 13 2020
I’ll have a shot of that.
Mmm. Baker’s 105. It’s “Sippin’” Whiskey, so a side of Soda or Branch only please. At it’s peak the Bourbon Empire ranged about as far as the Hapsburgs but it was always centered around France and Spain (as opposed to Germany and Central Europe). It is interesting to observe the final throes. The Immoral Double …
Aug 13 2020
September 1, 1939
On the night of 31 August 1939, a small group of German operatives dressed in Polish uniforms and led by Naujocks seized the Gleiwitz station and broadcast a short anti-German message in Polish (sources vary on the content of the message). The operation was named “Grossmutter gestorben” (Grandmother died). The operation was to make the …
Aug 12 2020
Canadian Cherry Picking
We used to go out to Michigan every Summer. I found it boring and painful which I supposed spoiled it for the rest of the family, though how many times is deep fried Chicken from Frankenmuth exciting (for the record the first Girlfriend who let me get to Second Base was from Frankenmuth and that …
Aug 12 2020
Ventriloquism
How far up your ass is the hand, puppet? Yeah. All 33 Minutes. Like, not old. Yesterday. And Cat Sufferage!
Aug 11 2020
Go State
So on Friday I’m going to miss the Memorial Service for my Aunt. It’s too bad really. I liked her a lot, thought she was cool because she drove a Corvette and wore Designer Ripped Blue Jeans. She did other things but was a Professor at Michigan State University and many of her friends and …
Aug 10 2020
Did I Miss Anything Interesting?
Wow. Wow. Hot Dogs. Apple Pie. Chevrolet. I hope you’re using this instruction time on Republican attack messaging. They’re really, really good at it.
Aug 10 2020
Rock, Rock, Rock And Roll High School
Well, first of all, Public Education is a system of conditioning an Army of obedient Meat Puppets as Labor Slaves for Corporatists. Now don’t mistake my cynicism. I had a wonderful Education I greatly enjoyed, mostly because my Teachers were scared of me in that Anthony Fremont kind of way. I admit I am somewhat …